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VP COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING (UA-VPCM-IUBLA)
Job Summary
The creative Marketing Strategist is a full-time position responsible for supporting digital marketing and communications initiatives across all IU Global units. This role involves creating and executing comprehensive marketing campaigns, including digital advertising, social media, and CRM email marketing.
Department Specific Responsibilities
- Collaborates with the Marketing Director to develop strategic marketing campaigns across multiple channels.
- Designs and implements successful email marketing campaigns targeting prospective and current students, ensuring effective content and targeting strategies.
- Builds and manages email campaigns within CRM system to optimize engagement and enrollment.
- Provides strategic creative direction for the development of marketing assets, including graphics, brochures, and other promotional content, ensuring alignment with IU¿s brand standards.
- Manages and mentors part-time graphic design staff, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment while overseeing their contributions to various projects.
- Supports international recruitment marketing initiatives by managing social media content and strategies, including platforms like WhatsApp.
- Oversees the end-to-end process of producing creative assets across print, digital, and promotional materials, ensuring timely completion and high-quality output.
General Responsibilities
- Independently develops and executes basic and increasingly more complex strategic marketing plans for a department or functional area within a department to advance goals and objectives, including data collection and market research, target market definition, development of project timelines, sourcing of promotional materials, and marketing content creation.
- Responds to inquiries and requests from stakeholders and explains information regarding policies, procedures, and programs.
- Manages relationships with various internal and external stakeholders, including vendors, and acts as a collaborative resource in curating marketing plans to relevant initiatives, groups, events, and programs.
- Regularly researches relevant subject matter to increase knowledge in area(s) of specialty, including information on various marketing channels (print, online, electronic, email, social media, and direct mail).
- May participate in team-based marketing planning to align strategies and deadlines across various concurrent projects and initiatives.
- Collaborates with users of various software programs and creative platforms to create and deliver content and marketing materials in multiple formats to a variety of audiences.
- May provide guidance to lower-level Marketing Generalists.
QualificationsCombinations of related education and experience may be considered. Education beyond the minimum required may be substituted for work experience. Work experience beyond the minimum required may be substituted for education.
EDUCATION
Required- Bachelor's degree in communications, marketing, English, public relations, or related field
WORK EXPERIENCE
Required- 2 years in relevant field
SKILLS
Required
- Proficient communication skills
- Maintains a high degree of professionalism
- Demonstrates time management and priority setting skills
- Demonstrates a high commitment to quality
- Possesses flexibility to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment
- Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty
- Highly thorough and dependable
- Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure
Preferred
- Strong creative skills
- Strategic thinking skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Passionate about marketing
- Keen eye for design
Working Conditions / DemandsThis role requires the ability to effectively communicate and to operate a computer and other standard office productivity equipment. The position involves sedentary work as well as periods of time moving around an office environment and the campus. The person in this role must be able to perform the essential functions with or without an accommodation.
Work LocationBloomington, Indiana or Indianapolis, Indiana
Benefits OverviewFor full-time staff employees, Indiana University offers a wide array of benefits including:
- Multiple plan options for medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Health Savings Account with generous IU contribution
- Life insurance, LTD, and AD&D options
- Base retirement plan contribution from IU, subject to vesting
- Additional supplemental retirement plan options
- Tuition benefit for IU classes
- 10 paid holidays per year
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Learn more about our benefits by reviewing our online Benefits Brochure.
Job ClassificationCareer Level: Career
FLSA: Exempt
Job Function: Marketing & Communications
Job Family: Marketing
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